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Well I came up with my name as a variation of Lead Foot. My Dad used to get the occasional call from the Highway Patrol to either come and get me outta the emergency room after a crash or to warn him that the Trooper I outran was sure it was me, but didnt get a plate#
( I had a knack for unusual easy to identify cars, Like a red 1964 Comet Cyclone in 1985, or the 351w I slapped in a '75 Gremlin in '84 and the 440 Mopar '53 Studebaker PU I built in 87 after almost 2 yrs recovering from the crash of the Comet (flipped it 7 times on Halloween day 1985 running from the law @ 130+....) anywayI had a knack for oddities and little respect for authority.... still a bit of a problem for me @40yrs old I admit.
But Dad would get in my face and tell me my Lead Foot was gonna get my young ass thrown in jail or killed so when I got my first CB my name was Leadfoot. Years later I started building legitimate race cars for myself and called the Team LedPhoot Racing using the variation of LED from "Led Zeppelin" one of my favorite bands, and just to keep it interesting Phoot for foot.
My only other nickname has ever been "Jukebox" because I'm a Karaoke nut and sing all types of music. The DJ at the club where I sing gave me that name and it stuck with many of my friends.
My Exwife calls me Bastard:malebitch and my new wife calls me Boobie when shes h*rn*y :eek:or somethings broken or there's a spider on the wall...LMAO!!!
You know it's funny, cops in NC still can't drive to this day. I spent a lot of time in high school with flashing lights fading away in the rear view....
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Ok, this thread has been dead since October last year....Why oh why did you feel the need to revive it?
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That's insane...Why spend all that cash for something that's just not going to be useful anywhere? Bling? Show? Give it to someone who can use it...
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I thought that sounded familiar. When I was in High School we listened to ICP...Last time a heard an ICP song I thought to myself, "what were thinking? That's complete garbage with a beat..."
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Ummmm, I'm sorry but that is hideously ugly and not feasible. You try to run that down a track and the first hard launch will rip all that ♥♥♥♥ off the top of the engine.
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now im not sure if this belongs in here but, could you hook up a nitrous plate on the 4 barrel manifold?
If you search this has actually been discussed in full detail before.
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When I was in 6th grade I played a lot of role playing games and online MUDs. For my first D&D game I ever played I made a mage character and called him Naviathan. No idea where the name came from, just popped in my head and I've used it for everything because it's unique. It's kind of odd now, here I am 14 years later and I still have the same screen name and explaining it to people gives me some odd looks.
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I got one for ya... anyone know what the difference between a 400HP supra and a 700HP supra is? Nothing they both run 12s....
BTW good job bringing back a 5 year old thread
No kidding! I saw this thread come up and I looked at the date thinking, I've never seen this one before...Holy Crap this is old!
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They have the proper bolt pattern, but the offset doesn't look right. I think you'll end up hitting the springs. Especially with a coilover setup.
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Well I assumed I was getting vapor lock, but it looks like it's leaking injectors. Not surprising.
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Now that makes a lot of sense. Maybe next time I'll just disconnect the harness from the cold start valve and see if that works. Thanks.
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That seems simple enough, but the Z injectors don't have filters and the opening are a bit smaller.
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What do you use to sonic clean fuel injectors? I thought about buying one of these jewelery cleaners for my wife and I thought maybe I could buy two and use one with parts cleaner to clean fuel injectors. Would that work? Or is there a certain type of sonic cleaner to use on car parts?
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Well, does carfax say anything negetive? Usually if something comes up it will say there was something reported on this vehicle and you have to purchase the report to find out.
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I know carfax has no clue about old car VIN numbers. My 1970 comes up with nothing. Their computer records only go back so far, and they don't like numbers that don't follow the current convention. Like HLS30.....
Maybe the car is just too old. Check with you state motor vehicle association.
Nah, the limit on carfax is 85 I believe. That's when they went to a national standard on VIN number length. It should be coming up.
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Hmmm interesting. I may have to look into that possibility. Would sonic cleaning the injectors stop them from leaking or is that just the end of it when they start?
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Damn...Why can't I get that lucky? I want a 240 to restore so bad...
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I'm not a Ford fan, but I bought my wife an 89 Ford Ranger XLT with the 2.9l V6 because it was cheap. Runs great and I only paid $400 for it from a guy I work with. We've had it over a year now and I had to have the front pump seal replaced on the tranny. Aside from that little incident this truck has run great and hauled everything I can think of. It gets good gas mileage, especially if you keep your foot out of the pedal and it's comfortable.
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Ok but if I drive around and get the car completely warmed up then stop at say a gas station or someplace where I'm only going to be there 30 minutes or less when I restart it acts like it's vapor locked and the temp gauge reads well over center gauge for about 30 seconds until everything gets moving again.
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Ok I started checking through the FSM and although it's for an 82 not an 81 I think I may have an idea of what's going on. It appears the only way that fan can kick on while the car is running is if the ignition relay for some reason opens signaling the ignition is off to the fan motor timer unit. No I just need to find all these components and figure out what the issue is.
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My first thought is import. Was the car imported into the US from Europe at some point?
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Actually he didn't weld it together. I asked about that, it's dowel rods or something between the pieceswith oring and machined to seal flush.
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Sweet quiz...It said in the end the average has been 11.117 correct answers...Odd for the number of people that seem to be doing so well on it.
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This is the 2nd 81ZX I've had and neither of them have had the fan stay on after the ignition went off. And I read a mod somewhere to keep the fan on after, so obviously they didn't all stay on.
( I had a knack for unusual easy to identify cars, Like a red 1964 Comet Cyclone in 1985, or the 351w I slapped in a '75 Gremlin in '84 and the 440 Mopar '53 Studebaker PU I built in 87 after almost 2 yrs recovering from the crash of the Comet (flipped it 7 times on Halloween day 1985 running from the law @ 130+....) anyway
Constructing in-car computer for 78 280z
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I would also suggest a solid state HDD. They have 4 gig plus USB drives now and most of your newer motherboard BIOS today allow for removable media boot devices. I know it can be done with Windows, although I'm not sure of that process myself. Linux on the other hand I can make do cartwheels and is my planned route of attack. I figured with Wine or one of the other crossover type apps I can get my tuning software for the TEC3 running easily enough. Everything else is simple Linux. Anyone interested in understanding Linux and wanting to learn more then any one person should know about it, check out Gentoo. It's simplistic, adaptive and the forums are incredible.